Kemi Badenoch has killed off any prospect of an electoral pact with Nigel Farage after Reform UK’s poor showing in last week’s by-elections.
Writing in today’s Mail on Sunday, the Tory leader emphasises distinctions between the Conservatives and Mr Farage’s party, saying: ‘We are not the same, and voters are not ours to trade like football cards.’
And citing Reform’s support for ‘a bigger state, more spending, nationalisation, gimmicks and unfunded giveaways’, she says, devastatingly: ‘Reform dress like Thatcherites but act like Corbynites.’
Andy Burnham‘s emphatic victory over Reform in the Makerfield by-election on Thursday has put the Manchester mayor on course to
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